It will be Jordan's third team-up with Ry Coogler, who is directing the new spin-off. The pair previously worked together on indie hit Fruitvale Station and Rocky reboot Creed.

Lupita Nyong’o is currently in talks to take a role, which would see her co-star alongside Boseman as a love interest for Black Panther.

Black Panther will tell the origin story of the character, whose name is T’Challa. He is the warrior king of Wakanda, a fictional African nation in the Marvel cinematic universe, a country rich in an unbreakable alloy called vibranium.

Black Panther is due to go into production in early 2017 with a current release date of February 16th in 2018 booked in.

Boseman made his debut as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, which is in cinemas now and available to pre-order on DVD and Blu-Ray on the right-hand side of the page.